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Subject:Re: What do you call the Three Dots? From:Bridget Gordan <bridget -dot- gordan -at- gmail -dot- com> To:Robert Lauriston <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com> Date:Thu, 19 Oct 2017 14:19:40 -0600
Just went to a meeting where prod mgr called it the action menu, so Iâm sticking with menu button along with an inline image in text. With WalkMe, I just say âClick here.â
Bridget
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> On Oct 19, 2017, at 1:34 PM, Robert Lauriston <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com> wrote:
>
> I believe "overflow" is the term for an ellipsis that's the last entry
> in a partially displayed menu, and you select it to see the rest of
> the entries.
>
>> On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 4:47 AM, Cardimon, Craig <ccardimon -at- m-s-g -dot- com> wrote:
>> I just saw another label people are using for the three dots: The overflow menu.
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